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I've been thinking alot recently about what makes us differ so much from every other living creature on planet earth, not do much in a physical sense, as most animals are more or less the same in the way we are constructed (organs, bones, sensory abilities etc. .. but more in the way we think!

What part of the evolutionary process did it become beneficial for us to question our existence? Or to write poetry or to value gold?

What benifits is there for our constant need for improvement and to better our lives!

Why did it ever come about that we needed to create a "divine being" to attribute our creation and the creation of everything around us too!

Somethings not quite right, no other animal looses sleep over unpaid bills, infact no other animal can even comprehend what a bill is! No other animal even understands the concept of owing anybody anything!

Crocodiles dont get up early to go to church on a sunday, and they have been around alot longer than us!

Chimps dont commit suicide because life didnt turn out the way they planned!

Dogs dont get jealous when there neighbours get a new car!

Why have none of earths creatures evolved to have the same thought patterns as us??

If having the ability to question your own existence or to be able to comprehend deep philosophical theories was a benifical step in evolution, then why haven't many animals got to our level?

According to "the experts" we are a relatively new species to planet earth, give or take we are 200,000 years old, which is a blink of an eye in earths history.

Modern crocodiles have been around for some 30 million years, elephants around 50 million years, sharks upto 400 million years, and all these creatures haven't really evolved in the slightest! They are basically the same now as they were millions of years ago! Now most will argue that they didnt need to evolve any further, as they were perfectly adapted to there habitat, which is fair enough and also the theory I believe!

But if that were the case then why arnt we still in a chimp like state? Chimps are perfectly adapted to their environment, as im sure we were 200,000 years ago,

Why didnt the crocodile develop supreme intelligence? Its had 10's of millions of years more than us to evolve into anything! But it hasn't! It has lived with the same primordial instincts that every other animal on the planet manages fine with, find food and mate! And like every other animal it works in harmony with the planet!

So what happend to us? Why in the space of a few hundred thousand years have we been catapulted to the top of the animal tree?? And its not like were just edging that title, we are the single most advanced species by so much so that im able to think about it, and post it on a world wide available network, using a device with more computing power than it took to land a man on the moon! Something just dosnt add up!!! Nothing about it is natural!

Somewhere down the line in our very brief time here, we have developed the ability to think outside of instinct! Some form of awakening as allowed our ancestors to become aware of potential, and become creatures of wonder and imagination, but why?

Why have we achieved and advanced so much in what is basically a nanosecond to earth, but the age old crocodile is still swimming in the swamp??

I apologise if I've rambled on seemingly aimlessly!

I should have been collecting berries and looking for a mate! But why am I not???

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Good question but I cant see how progress can be unnatural?

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Good question but I cant see how progress can be unnatural?

Because we are the only species that has progressed? And calling it progress doesn't even justify what we have achieved in such a small time

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"Why in the space of a few hundred thousand years have we been catapulted to the top of the animal tree??"

Because we've done a good job at exterminating every other species that was a threat or competitor. Sometimes though we exterminate them just for the sheer fun of it, ask the passenger pigeon or dodo.

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"Why in the space of a few hundred thousand years have we been catapulted to the top of the animal tree??"

Because we've done a good job at exterminating every other species that was a threat or competitor. Sometimes though we exterminate them just for the sheer fun of it, ask the passenger pigeon or dodo.

But why have we exterminated creatures for fun? What evolutionary purpose would that serve? Why are we the only animal that conducts themselves in this way!

Im not making an argument for the damage we have done to the earth! But we are most certainly top of the animal tree! Nobody can deny that!

No creature has advanced like man has!

My question is WHY?

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But if that were the case then why arnt we still in a chimp like state? Chimps are perfectly adapted to their environment, as im sure we were 200,000 years ago,

Well, we weren't "chimps" 200,000 years ago. That is when anatomically modern humans emerged - but the homo genus before then were still very similar to us. You need to go back a couple of million years to find something we wouldn't recognise as human in some way.

Not everything has to serve an evolutionary purpose by the way. Sometimes evolution throws up strange things that it doesn't need to expend the energy on removing.

I'm not entirely sure on what you're asking. One thing of interest however is the idea of collaboration. It may be that we survived when other homo lines died out because we can think creatively and collaborate, ensuring our survival.

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Your problem is that your asking why. When everything involved with evolution "just is". If you follow that theory then its random just is. Thats just how it happened.

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I've always been able to argue away self awareness, self image and mythology as being learned and/or developed within a society that labels people based on standards.

However, Irony and Humor... The ability to draw connections in wording or circumstance, between things that should not be connected... Our enjoyment of diverting the natural shape, color, and nature of things, in order to find them beautiful... Finding it funny to laugh at things, simply because they are not meant to be funny... These are strange traits that seem to be exclusive to human nature, emerging regardless of cultural influences or environment.

As human beings, we have always found ways of perversifying the true nature of things, in order to make them special in some way. Across cultures.

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